Built in Kathmandu,
for the exams that
decide things here.
We are a small team at Lacspace who kept watching capable candidates fail exams for want of decent preparation material — and decided that a platform built abroad and translated was never going to fix it.
Where we are
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Founded
As part of the iSmart family
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People
Engineering, content and support
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Office
Bhimsengola, Kathmandu
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Products
iSmartKid, iSmartClass, iSmartExams
The exams that matter most here
got the least attention.
EPS-TOPIK decides whether a family's income triples. The Lok Sewa result decides a career. The licence written test decides whether someone can work as a driver at all. Between them they are sat by hundreds of thousands of Nepalis a year — and the preparation material was photocopied question banks with answer keys nobody could verify.
Meanwhile the good software was built for other countries' syllabuses, on the assumption of a laptop, a stable connection and English as a first language. None of those hold here.
- Question banks with no verifiable answer key
- Platforms assuming a laptop and a stable connection
- English-first explanations for Nepali-first learners
- Nothing measuring which topic was actually costing the marks
Four things that decide the arguments
Every product team has values on a wall. These are the ones we have actually used to settle a disagreement.
Local first, always
Bikram Sambat dates, Nepali explanations, syllabuses set by Nepali bodies. A platform built elsewhere and translated is not the same product.
Honest measurement
Scores are computed on our servers, not on the handset. A number you cannot trust is worse than no number at all.
Access before revenue
The licence bank is free. Every category has a free set. If a learner cannot pay, they should still be able to prepare.
Ship, then listen
A fourteen-day cycle, and everything released is in someone's hands that fortnight. Feedback beats a roadmap written in advance.
How we got here, and where next
Nepal first, properly, before anything else. Expansion only once the home market is genuinely served.
2024
iSmartClass ships
Lacspace puts its first education product into Nepali schools — the platform this one is built on.
2025
The gap becomes obvious
Schools ask for exam preparation their students can use outside class. Nothing on the market is built for Nepali syllabuses.
2026
iSmartExams launches
EPS-TOPIK, Lok Sewa and driving licence go live, with the mobile app and the institute portal.
2027
India expansion
JEE, NEET, SSC and banking, using the same engine and the same offline-first assumptions.
2028
Global language exams
IELTS, PTE, JLPT and TOPIK for candidates across South Asia.
Three products,
one shared core.
iSmartKid covers the early years, iSmartClass runs the school, and iSmartExams takes over when a candidate starts preparing for what comes after it. The same accounts, the same content pipeline, the same analytics — which is why a school already on iSmartClass can switch exam preparation on in an afternoon.
- iSmartKid — early-years learning, ages 3 to 10
- iSmartClass — AI-powered school management, live in Nepali schools
- iSmartExams — exam preparation for candidates and institutes
- One Lacspace core underneath all three
A fortnight from idea
to someone using it.
Fourteen-day cycles, and everything released is in a learner's hands that fortnight. There is no committee between a good idea and a release, which is the main advantage a fourteen-person team has and the one we are least willing to give up as we grow.
- Fourteen-day release cycle, over the air where possible
- Support conversations read by the people who build the thing
- Content editors sit with engineers, not in a separate function
- Kathmandu-based, remote-friendly across Nepal
Things we will not do
Stated here so they can be held against us later. That is the point of writing them down.
We say what a number means
Rank prediction is described as a comparison against people practising here, not as a forecast of your result. Overstating a metric is a short-term win and a long-term credibility problem.
We do not sell learner data
Not to employers, not to agents, not to recruiters. Your results are shared with an institute only if you joined that institute's batch yourself.
AI drafts, people decide
We use AI to draft question variations from official syllabus material because it makes editors faster. Every item is approved by a human before publication. No exceptions, and we will not quietly change this.
Free stays free
The driving licence bank and a practice set in every category are permanently free. If that ever changes, we will say so loudly and in advance rather than quietly moving a paywall.
Scoring on the server,
from day one.
It would have been easier and cheaper to score attempts on the handset. We did not, because a platform whose whole product is measurement cannot ship a number that a motivated user can change. It is the single most important engineering decision in the product and it is invisible to everybody, which is usually how that goes.
Nepal properly first.
Then outward.
India in 2027 and the global language exams after that — but only once the home categories are genuinely finished rather than merely launched. Expanding early is the standard way an education product ends up mediocre in four markets instead of excellent in one.
One office, one product
Everything — engineering, content and support — is built out of Bhimsengola, Kathmandu.
Reasonable things to ask
Still stuck?
A person answers in Nepali or English, usually within a quarter of an hour.
Contact supportWe would rather you used it than read about us.
Everything on this page matters less than whether the product actually helps you pass. Take the diagnostic and judge it on that.